Summer madness

What a crazy, (not) lazy summer its been this yer. For the obvious reasons, I’ve been catching up on work, and whizzing around the country shooting hotels, gardens, interiors and people… Here is some of the lovely editorial work I have done (many thanks to the magazines for the way they have published them…. I am looking forward to a productive late summer and, dare I say it, autumn! here’s to misty mornings, cooler evenings and fab low angled light, which makes for a good looking image… oh, and some cider apple harvesting ;-)

thanks to VSP interiors, French Brooks Interiors, The Concrete House, and Ambrose Vevers

Work for 25 Beautiful Homes, originally published in Homes and Gardens

Shot for Country Life magazine, summer 2021

Grand Designs Magazine article, shot at the concrete house in Lewes, Sussex

Shot for Period Living magazine, Summer 2021

Many thanks for taking a look, and please do get in touch if you need photography. I am very happy to chat through your ideas, and can give you an upfront quote. I am off to the garden to build a seed bed… I am shooting a book for the wonderful Pimpernel Press… due out in a year or two, but watch this space…

Garden Photography with the Fuji X-T4

March 26, 2021 in Garden Photography, Equipment Review

I thought I’d give a quick review of the Fuji X-T4 camera that I have recently acquired. I have had many other Fujis over the years, including the X-T1 and 2, so I know my way round them, and have found them excellent. I have had one or other of these cameras around my neck for a few years now, mostly whilst either travelling, or documenting my local patch ( a lot of the time in the pub!). I often shoot gardens for magazines, but until now have really just used my Canon 5D4 with a range of lenses.

Wild flowers found at Coastguard Cottages in East Prawle

Wild flower verges at East Prawle

July 24, 2020 in Garden Photography, Flower Photography

If you are interested in persuading councils to NOT mow your local roadsides, please do take a look at the Plantlife website and sign their petition!

Late last year, we decided not to mow the verges alongside our small private road where we live. In only our first year of no-mow its been a revelation. The number of wild flowers has increased, and there are plants there that I had never seen before. Usually, the verges of the road are strimmed every couple of weeks, and this process obviously means that many of the natural plants are unable to produce seed. The next stage will be to mow after the seeds have set, in late summer. The result of all this is that verges are brimming with flowers and insects, and (in my opinion) it looks fantastic! Here is a list of some of the species I recorded just this summer…

Bristly Ox Tongue

Field Poppy

Ribwort Plantain

Greater plantain

Curled Dock

Broad leaved dock

Heath Bedstraw

Common Mallow

Wild Carrot

Perennial Sowthistle

Fennel

Greater Knapweed

Yarrow

Rough Chervil

Cats Ear

Red and White Campion

Scarlet Periwinkle

Creeping Cinquefoil

Field Bindweed

Herb Robert

Broomrape

Hairy Tare

Hedge Woundwort

Hedge Mustard

Nipplewort

Red and White Clover

Dandelion

Field Daisy

Birds Foot Trefoil

Small Flowered Cranesbill

Common Vetch

Hop Trefoil

Meadow vetchling

Trailing tormentil

Fleabane

Common mint

Common ragwort

Greater willowherb

Hawkbeard

Pineapple weed

Great mullein

Field scabious

Yellow rattle

Hogweed

Spear thistle

Hemp agrimony

Agrimony

Common bent (grass)

Yorkshire fog (grass)

Ox-eye daisy

False oat grass (grass)